WEEK 2: General Knowledge

1. Which film-maker has received the most Academy Awards (as at 2006)?

Ans: Walt Disney

2. What is the name of the wood where Winnie the Pooh lives?

Ans: Hundred Acre Wood

3. Which writer created the fictional British MI6 spy George Smiley?

Ans: John le Carre

4. Bob Hoskins played crime boss Harold Shand in which 1979 film?

Ans: The long good Friday

5.What film featured the ukulele-playing singer 'Sugar' Kane?

Ans: Some Like It Hot

6.What is Jennifer Beale's day job in the 1983 film Flashdance?

Ans: Welder

7.Who sang the theme song to the original Alfie film starring Michael Caine?

Ans: Cilla Black

8.Which film was re-named Flight Pacific 121 and then changed back to its original title?

Ans: Snakes on a Plane

9.Which iconic rock music frontman sang backing vocals on Carly Simon's 1973 hit You're So
Vain?

Ans: Mick Jagger

10.Who played Jeff's (James Stewart's) girlfriend Lisa Carol Fremont in the 1954 Hitchcock film Rear Window?

Ans: Grace Kelly